Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-27
Household

It will doubtless be remembered that /:
short sermon on economies has beer
preached from this column, but topic
OF so much importance may re-appeal
With benefit to sill interested Paramount
economy OF time, aud any way il can be
accomplished is CUmmendable.
While i is conceded to j journalists t.
shoot folly as it flies, it is well to know il
Is folly ere the gun goes of Fashion
doubtless Institutes some absurd Gus
toms, but many thst have been held up &c
rtdicule have their origin IN reason,
and q little ref cIion will see more il
them TO commend than condemn
The manifold duties Of a housekeeper,
social. intellectual and domestic are ap
to clash unless some system is sdopted,
ana some regard is paid to the spportion-
ment of the time devoted TO each. Con-
sldering these duties in the order men
tioned- society has Its claims on every
woman, in fact, but for her there would De
nothing deserving the nam, and on each
woman devolYes the duty OF contributing
aer share of Uime and talent to its main
tenznce. The busy housewife groans n
der the n sny Interruptions that 50 eff CT
QHE Dl&nS d1u bSGO III way OOs VI hL1S " Ia
Gu ties 3 Here custom STE ps TO her rellt
ID says, have days and hours set apar'
Tor social pleasures ana inform those who
visit you that at such times
you will be at home. Yeur
and yourself prepared, there will be no
feeling Of irritation over half 1nished
work, or d sense of annoyance that when
you return to your task you will be IN
able to take it up, and as you sit plaCidly
listening TO the psrlor chit chat your
soul will not be harro wed by the thought
Of q scorcGing roast or burning loaf IN
the kitchen
Another and a better reason can be
urged for this sensible custom. Il is the
duty of every woman, wife, mother or
maiden, to feed her intellectual nature
She has no right TO starve so important .
factor of her being, hence the necessity
for hours of reading and study, which
even the members OF the family ought to
there can be, no more pitlsble
sight than to see wife or mother fall be-
hind her husband, and even her children,
in The march of intellectual progress.
"a >nnah Jane" may furnish theme for
w III C6IlSbOn'S pOS55s OuG ~ "Al0 Va oby
wisdom will allow her husband to so out
strip her, SIS it shall become test Of
principle with him whether he shall honor
~ his advancement the wife of bis youth.
l. behooves womep to remember that there
are more Senator Tabors than heroes of
Will Cartoons pattern.
A word of suggestion is all that is nee
esssry. Ladies of Fort Worth csn readi-
~ see cogent reasons for adopting the
custom, and it is to De hoped that the
n year will insugurste s large inter-
mango of c. IDS, stating the time which
ur many hospitable matrons are wiling
70 devote to visits of ceremony.
NEW FANCY WORK.
The new handkerchief cases are dsintY
bags of wide satin ribbon. They are easily
made and exceedingly pretty Riooon
six inches wide should be used, aud gold
is most desirable color. One yard and
third of ribbon is IT quired for case.
Divide it in two equal parts, and fringe
out each end to the depth of one inch and
half. Cut from thin pasteooard square
measuring FIVE and s half inches, and
place on ii two layers of white cotton bat
ing, between when violet and heiltrope
sscset powder has been literally
sprinkled. The two strips Of ribbon
are then crossed in the center, with the